Stan Kelly

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Stan Kelly was the stage name of British musician and author Stan Kelly-Bootle (or Stanley Bootle) (born in Liverpool on 15 September 1929; died 16 April 2014). His is remembered for his most famous song "Liverpool Lullaby" (aka "The Mucky Kid"), which Judy Collins recorded in 1965 and Cilla Black recorded in 1969 (as the B-side to her pop hit "Conversations"). Stan Kelly-Bootle was schooled at the Liverpool Institute. He spent 1948-1950 as a conscript in the British Army, achieving the rank of Sgt. Instructor in RADAR. He then attended Downing College, Cambridge, graduating with a degree in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing, the first postgraduate diploma in computer science, in 1954. In 1950, Kelly-Bootle helped found the St Lawrence Folk Song Society at Cambridge University. As a folk song author and singer, he performed under the name "Stan Kelly". He wrote some of his own tunes and also wrote lyrics set to traditional tunes. In the course of his musical career, he made over 200 radio and television appearances, and released several recordings, as well as having his songs recorded by others. He started his computing career programming the pioneering EDSAC computer, designed and built at Cambridge University. He worked for IBM in the United States and the UK from 1955 to 1970. From 1970 to 1973, he worked as Manager for University Systems for Sperry-UNIVAC. He also lectured at the University of Warwick. In 1973, Kelly-Bootle left Sperry-UNIVAC and became a f